Match



W.YE. FAYE.

MATCH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1920.

1 ,402,754:, Patented Jan. 10, 1922;

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WILLIAM E. IEAYIL, 0F TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF TO ATHOL F. B. THURRAY,

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J an, 10, 1922 Application filed SepteznberQO, 1920. Serial No. 411,578.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM E. FAYE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of the city of Toronto, county of York, Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Matches, as described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, that form part of the same.

The objects of this invention are to prevent the burning of the fingers in the haudling of matches through the flame following up the splint and to provide a handy and readily accessible means for scratching the matches the one upon the other, thus preventing defacing walls, furniture, etc.

' and injuring clothes.

The principal feature of the invention consists in placing a coating of an abrasive material around the match intermediate of its length, whereby the flow of the paraiiin is intercepted and the flame is ultimately extinguished.

The drawing is a diagrammatic representation in which Figure 1 represents a surface of adhesive material.

Figure 2 illustrates a match having been rolled over the surface of adhesive material and having had applied thereto a coating of said adhesive.

Figure 3 illustrates a surface of abrasive material and Figure 4 the finished match.

Practically all matches at present used are impregnated for a portion of their length with para'fiin so that the flame from the head will readily ignite the splint. Thesematches burn very quickly as the paraflin becomes heated by the flame and travels along the splint even to the end and this often causes the fingers of the user to be burned or causes other dangerous conditions where burning matches are thrown down while still alight.

It is the purport of this invention to definitely limit the length of the ,burnable portion of the match and while it has been proposed to dip the splint in a chemlcal solution to prevent the burning thereof past a certain point, such treatment is expensive and not altogther positive because the paraffin ma still spread beyond the point of chemica impregnation and carry the flame with it.

My improved structure consists in coating the surface of the match about mid-way of its length with an adhesive which may be done by rolling the match over'an adhesive surface and the adhesive coated match is then rolled over the surface of a pulverized mineral which will present a non-inflammable surface to the match and will effec tively stop the flow of the melted paraflin.

This pulverized mineral will be in the form l damage will result and when the match is lit it will burn in the ordinary manner until the melted paraflin comes in contact with the mineral coating. Its flow farther along the splint will be effectively stopped and the match will burn out, leaving a substantial length of the splint in the hands of the user.

The improvement adds very little to the cost, but will make the matches very safe for use. Matches so treated will not occupy any greater space and may be handled in the ordinary way.

What I claim as my invention is 1. -A match having a band of non-inflammable material surrounding the splint midway of its length adapted to stop the travel 

